A week after the explosion that killed more than 80 people in Istanbul, Turkey's largest city, the Turkish Defense Ministry attacked Kurdish militants' bases in neighboring Syria and Iraq on the 20th, saying they were plotting terrorism.
On the other hand, a rocket fired by an armed group landed near the Turkish border, injuring a Turkish police officer and others, and tensions are rising.
The Turkish government has so far detained more than 60 people, including a Syrian woman, who carried out the explosion that killed 6 people and injured 81 in downtown Istanbul on the 13th of this month. It has been accused of terrorism organized by the PKK = Kurdish Workers' Party, which is designated as an organization.
On the 20th, one week after the explosion, the Turkish Ministry of Defense posted on Twitter that it would take retaliatory measures, and then airstrikes the bases of Kurdish armed groups, which it considers to be affiliated with the PKK, in neighboring Syria and Iraq. announced that it had destroyed
Turkey's Defense Minister Akar said, ``The operation was successful.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which collects information on Syria, 31 people, including militant fighters, were killed in the attack.
According to Turkish media, after that, a rocket fired by an armed group landed near a checkpoint on the Turkish border, injuring eight Turkish police officers and raising tensions near the border.